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coolness and sound judgment alone enabled him to win in 

 most artistic style in a field of seventeen runners. He 

 also won the Granby Handicap at Croxton Park, and the 

 Cup with Mr. Dawson's Roxburgh, the Welter Scurry at 

 Stockbridge on Lord Aylesford's Mafiori, and carried off 

 the Scurry Sweepstakes at Cambridge with Blair Hill. 

 The Selling Welter at Stockbridge also fell to him on Lord 

 Aylesford's Hermitage, as well at the Hurstbourne Welter 

 on Whirlwind, and the Welter Handicap on Buttress, all 

 for the same owner, at the Stamford meeting, where he 

 won the Barleythorpe Stakes on Mafiori as well. 



Mr. Richardson was particularly successful on Captain 

 Machell's horses this year, among his victories being the 

 Welter Handicap at Warwick, the Welter Plate at Lincoln, 

 and the Wath Wood Stakes at Swinton, all on Bridg- 

 water. He also won the Six-Furlong Welter Plate at the 

 Epsom Spring Meeting on Lincoln, the Metropolitan Red- 

 Coat Steeplechase at Croydon on Ecce (perhaps the race 

 referred to by the writer's father), and the Craven Steeple- 

 chase at Liverpool, and the United Kingdom Steeplechase 

 at Croydon on Disturbance. On Titterstone he won the 

 Cottenham Handicap Steeplechase, beating J. Cannon on 

 Lord Aylesford's Chussum a head, and the Lincoln Open 

 Handicap Steeplechase (beating Snowstorm), the Newport 

 Pagnell Open Hunt Steeplechase, and the Retford Welter 

 Steeplechase on the same horse. Many other races were 

 also won on Captain Machell's horses. 



One of Mr. Richardson's greatest triumphs was on Mr. 

 Baltazzi's Furley at Croydon in 1873. Furley jumped his 

 fences in such slovenly style that his chance seemed hope- 

 less ; but his rider steadied him, and gradually wearing 

 down Silvermere, ridden by Page, won a grand race by a 

 neck. He also won the Grand Annual at Warwick with the 

 same horse, and pulled oft' the Grand National at Liverpool 

 in a field of twenty-eight starters, on Captain Machell's Dis- 

 turbance. He won the Altcar Welter on Lincoln, beating 

 Tom Cannon on Pharaide (6 to 4 against Pharaide) by a 

 neck ; pulled off" the Tankersley Park Plate at Swinton on 



